Rewards of foreign stocks

PUB. DATE

March 1986

SOURCE

Town & Country;Mar86, Vol. 140 Issue 5070, p74

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

A two-year boom in non-US stock markets has been externally driven by investors outside the local markets. This global bull market may well continue into 1987, but the next leg of this bull cycle will be more mature, and hence, less generalized.

Discusses the responses of various governments in Asia on the increasing global competition for foreign investments. Dependence of economic growth on the level of investment; Pressures and challenges posed by the increasing globalization of economies; Attractiveness of Australia as a destination...

Discusses the debt of Sub-Saharan Africa and offers some possible avenues Western creditors may consider to help these countries stay afloat without losing their investment. Debt was $272 billion in 1990, 112 percent of the gross domestic product; Concessional debt owed by the poorest countries...

Reports on the viability of foreign investment in South Africa. Dependence of arrangements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) on free elections; Federal sanctions in the United States; Statistics on foreign business enterprises in South Africa; Advantages of South...

Discusses the economic significance of foreign investment in socialist Cuba, from the point of view of the country's financial needs, and the issues which have a bearing on the further growth of foreign investment in the country. Legislation approved by Cuba's Council to authorize foreign...